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All work = delicious play
There is a reason the word eat is in sweat. Coming off of a weekend of non-stop planting, weeding, irrigating, harvesting, and storing, I finally reached one of those exhausting peaks
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Preserving the seasons through fermentation
The new culture of culturing: One of the hot topics in the Bay Area food community is fermentation — using friendly bacteria to turn fruits and vegetables into sauerkraut, kimchi and other piquant preserves. Tara Duggan gives an extensive overview of this new culture, one that is spawning home-picklers,
Digest: Turkey time, slow schizophrenia, and rural America tells Obama where it’s at
Get rural, Obama: Rural Americans mostly didn't vote for Obama, but back in October 2007 he pledged to hold a "rural summit" if elected and deliver a package of rural initiatives to Congress in his first 100 days as president. Here's what they might want to see in it — and surprise, it's not about
Videos posted for Slow Food Nation’s Food for Thought series
Good news for all you folks who couldn't make it to Slow Food Nation on Labor Day weekend, or who, like me, did attend but didn't manage to get tickets to all the events you wanted: Slow Food has posted full, high-quality
Thoughts on Slow Food Nation: Politics vs. taste, competition vs. cooperation
I'm a bad, guilty blogger these days. I spent Friday and Saturday of Slow Food Nation just taking it all in — the stupendous design of the Taste Pavilion, that glittering temple to good food constructed of recycled
Snapshot from Slow Food Nation: Slow on the Go vendor Fatted Calf
Late Saturday afternoon I ran into Taylor Boetticher, who with Toponia Miller are the meat geniuses behind Fatted Calf and the youngest rock stars of the Bay Area's charcuterie boom.
Slow Food Nation: Let the delicious revolution begin!
Slow Food Nation, the three-day festival that's been hyped as the "Woodstock of the food movement" and the "first
Centralization takes center stage at the Commonwealth Club
As part of the "How We Eat" series at the Commonwealth Club this month, Slow Food Nation Policy and Communications director Naomi Starkman moderated a thoughtful panel discussion
Sowing the seeds of social change: Slow Food Nation’s Victory Garden
Last Saturday I attended the launch of the Slow Food Nation Victory Garden at the foot of San Francisco's City
Alice Waters in conversation with SF Mayor Gavin Newsom
Mayors of major American cities are usually the ones answering questions in interviews. So when the mayor is the one doing the interviewing, the subject must be someone special. That was the case on Monday night, when San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newson sat down with chef, food activist, and Slow Food International
Shoots — eat and leave
The first people to eat takenoko, or young bamboo shoots, must have been really, really hungry. This special 150th episode of Boing Boing TV features
Gary Nabhan wants you to go native for SOLE food
Could native foods be the next big thing in eating? Some people, Gary Nabhan in particular, are working to push things in that direction. Nabhan, a noted conservation scientist at the
Digest - Blogsnacks: Raw milk, Alice Waters updates; wine’s carbon footprint, defining local
Calling all Californian raw-milk drinkers: David Gumpert is chronicling all the latest twists and turns in the shady saga of AB1735, the handful of words that may have consigned raw milk to the compost pile in California. A raw-food advocate plans to file a court injunction and launch a class action
Foraging in Quebec
This week was Noshette's birthday, and among the many things we did to celebrate was to have dinner at Les Jardins Sauvages, which in English means "the wild gardens", a woodland table restaurant in St.Roch de l'Achigan. (Since I
Guest post from Ohio: Seeing red
Bonnie here: At the end of June I sent out a call for new Ethicurean contributors outside the U.S. coasts, and I'm pleased to say that at least three people have emailed me made it through our rigorous application process. Our latest writer,
